kwei

nice name aragorn: )

Usually when i see "post your systems" threads I just look through them to see what everyones got going, I think they are a little silly: ) But I was about to do this today anyways in an excell spreadsheet so ill just do it in here too since the hard part is remembering what is in each system. Let the fun begin: Maximus (main system used for quake 3 only) MOBO: MSI K7T Turbo-R PROC: AMD Thunderbird 1.33 Ghz HEATSINK: Swiftech MC462-A RAM: Generic PC133 (768 MEGS) VIDEO CARD: MSI Starforce 815 (geforce GTS) SOUND CARD: Soundblaster Live Platinum HD: Quantum Atlas 10k II 18.2 GB SCSI (two) CD/CDR/DVD: Creative 12X DVD NIC(S): SMC EZ10/100 CASE: 3DCOOL Tornado 1000 MOUSE: Logitech Wingman Gaming Mouse KB: Microsoft Internet KB MONITOR: Cybervision 19" OTHER SCSI CONTROLLER: Adaptec 29160N SPEAKERS: Cambridege Soundworks DTT3500 Cleopatra (secondary system for messin round) MOBO: MSI K7T Pro2A PROC: AMD Duron 700 Mhz (RMAing a 1.2 tbird) HEATSINK: Kaine Hedgehog RAM: Kingmax TinyBGA PC133 (256 MEGS) VIDEO CARD: ASUS v6800 Pure (geforce DDR) SOUND CARD: Soundblaster Live Value HD: Maxtor 10 GB CD/CDR/DVD: Kenwood TrueX 72X Generic 4X burner NIC(S): SMC EZ10/100 CASE: INWIN (watever cant remeber name: ) MOUSE: Intellimouse Explorer KB: Generic KB MONITOR: 17" Generic (Cant remember name) OTHER WEBCAM: Logitech Webcam Pro Sparticus (server) MOBO: MSI 6309 PROC: Intel PIII 600E HEATSINK: Golden ORB RAM: Generic PC100 (128 MEGS) VIDEO CARD: Matrox G200 SOUND CARD: NONE HD: Maxtor 7.2 GB CD/CDR/DVD: Generic 36X NIC(S): SMC EZ10/100 (two) CASE: Antec (cant rember model) MOUSE: Intellimouse Pro KB: Gateway2000 KB MONITOR: NONE these things are all very loud, the room they are in sounds like someone is vaccuming constantly. hope you are entertained: )

Hey guys hows it goin. This is my first post here yay! Ive been reading this forum for the last couple of weeks and ive finally decided to join: ) Anyways here is my question. I recently moved into a new apartment and am using @home for my inet connection. The cable modem is connected into a server, the server goes to a hub, then the hub has two more computers connected to it. What happens is periodically I will loose my connect to the net. I have to restart my apps usually and they will go right back online, but this was not an issue before in my last apartment, which I was using the same exact equipment and same @home provider. Also, the cable modem is not loosing its link, the link light is always a solid green. I have had the @home provider out to my house 2 times to look into this and all they can tell me is that its probably a setting within my computer that is causing the problem. There was the issue of the line signal being too strong but they checked that and that is not the issue either. I have also tried swapping nics just in case one may have gone bad and also no luck with that either. This is very strange behavior to me, in the past I never experienced problems with staying online, usually going for weeks at a time. Now i get disconnected at random intervals, sometimes as close as 5 minutes apart. The things im usually doing when this happens is chatting on irc or playing quake. I hope I gave enough information to help eliminate some guesses: ) thx guys and nice to see ya. kwei

ok well i tried various things to no avail here they are 1. switched from ICS to RRAS on the server machine 2. Did a fresh install of 2k pro instead of server 3. Tried flip flopping nics 4. Substituted in different nics 5. Tried different PCI slots for the nics 6. Sacrificed my best friend to the networking gods ive narrowed the problem down to either im missing something with the hardware/software settings on the server, or my cable connect just cant handle networks (propostrous). if i hook up just one computer there is no problem whatsoever. rather annoying though since each computer takes on different tasks and disabling one or more of them i loose out on some aspect of my online experience. ie unhook main computer and dont play any games, unhook secondayr computer and dont do email/browse/listen to mp3s/download apps. unhook servr and loose out on whatever its serving up at the time. grrr how come im the only one replying to my own posts: ) kwei

yea i am using ICS. thx for the suggestion. ill try RRAS first, ive been meaning to switch to that anyways, but ive been lazy: ) if that doesnt work i guess ill have to give sygate a try. still doesnt make sense to me though. it was working perfectly before i moved...sigh thx again.